Building Dialog Systems for Tutorial Applications
Papers from the 2000 Fall Symposium
Carolyn Penstein Ros and eacute; and Reva Freedman, Program Cochairs
Technical Report FS-00-01. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Architecture
Preface / 1
Reva Freedman and Carolyn Penstein Rose
Supporting Constructive Learning with a Feedback Planner / 1
Mark G. Core, Johanna D. Moore and Claus Zinn
Dialogue Management for Embedded Training / 10
Abigail S. Gertner, Brant A. Cheikes, and Lisa A. Haverty
Intelligent Tutoring Systems Are Missing the Tutor: Building a More Strategic Dialog-Based Tutor / 14
Neil T. Heffernan and Kenneth R. Koedinger
A Dialogue-Based Architecture for Computer Aided Language Learning / 20
Jerome Lehuen
A Declarative Model of Dialog / 28
Susan W. McRoy and Syed S. Ali
Dialog Issues for a Tutor System Incorporating Expert Problem Solvers / 37
Erica Melis and Helmut Horacek
Dialog Move Generation and Conversation Management in AutoTutor / 45
Natalie K. Person, Arthur C. Graesser, Derek Harter, Eric Mathews, and the Tutoring Research Group
Task-Oriented Tutorial Dialogue: Issues and Agents / 52
Jeff Rickel, Rajaram Ganeshan, Charles Rich, Candace L. Sidner, and Neal Lesh
Spoken Language Tutorial Dialogue / 58
Beverly Park Woolf and James Allen
Natural Language Understanding
The Need for Tutorial Dialog to Support Self-Explanation / 65
Vincent A. W. M. M. Aleven and Kenneth R. Koedinger
Processing Language Input in the CIRCSIM-Tutor Intelligent Tutoring System / 74
Michael Glass
Towards Understanding Geometry Explanations / 80
Octav Popescu and Kenneth R. Koedinger
Facilitating the Rapid Development of Language Understanding Interfaces for Tutoring Systems / 87
Carolyn Penstein Rose
Natural Language Generation
Can Simple Natural Language Generation Improve Intelligent Tutoring Systems? / 96
Barbara Di Eugenio and Michael J. Trolio
Text Realization for Dialog / 105
Susan W. McRoy, Songsak Channarukul, and Syed S. Ali
Tutorial Dialogue Analysis
A Computational Model of Affective Educational Dialogues / 113
Angel de Vicente and Helen Pain
A Structured View of Dialogue Context as a Basis for Addressing the Interactive Re-Use of Educational Dialogues / 122
Carlo Iacucci and Helen Pain
A Developmental Model of Self-Regulation Skills / 131
Michiko Kayashima
Pragmatic Analysis of Teachers’ Language: Towards an Empirically Based Approach / 135
Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Chris Mellish, and Helen Pain
Could You Repeat the Question? / 144
Florence Reeder
Demonstration Abstracts
Circuit Fix-It Shop: The Sequel--Exploring Issues in the Detection, Prevention, and Repair of Miscommunication / 148
Ronnie W. Smith
Coaching Driving Skills in a Shiphandling Trainer / 150
Bruce Roberts
Interactive Conceptual Tutoring in Atlas-Andes / 151
Carolyn Penstein Rose, Reva Freedman, Pamela Jordan, Michael Ringenberg, Antonio Roque, Kay Schulze, Robert Shelby, Stephanie Siler, Donald Treacy, Kurt VanLehn, Anders Weinstein, and Mary Wintersgill